Measuring-table for dressmakers.



No. 674,905. Patented May 28. |90I.

S. A. CLOUD. MEASURING 'TABLE F'ORfDRESSMAKERS. (Application med ot. a,1900.) (No Model.)

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SARAH A. CLOUD, OF

MEASURlNG-TABLE Tirion,

FATnNT AMnRicUs, GEORGIA.

FOR DRESSIVIAKERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,905, dated May 28,1901.

Application led October 8, 1900. Serial No. 32,435. (No model.)

To all whom, t may con/067%:

Be it known that I, SARAH A. CLOUD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Americus, in the county of Sumter and State of Georgia, haveinvented a new and useful Measuring- Table for Dressmakers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a measuring table or form for dressmakers; andthe object of the same is to provide simple and effective means forconveniently obtaining and ascertaining the length of dress-skirts forwomen and children in an accurate manner, the several parts being easilyand readily handled and set up in position for use and capable ofreduction to compact form for storage or transportation.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of theseveral parts, which will be morefully hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a measuring table orform embodying the invention and showing the manner of using the same.Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective View of one of the legs or supports.

Similar nu merals of reference areemployed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

Thenumeral l designates a table or form which is preferably circular andhas a central opening 2. This table or form is also preferablyconstructed of two hinged semicircular sections for convenience inreducing the same to compact bulk for storage or transportationpurposes. At diametrically opposite points on the outer edge of thetable or form are sockets 3, four being used, and each provided with aclamping thumb-screw 4, legs or uprights 5 being adjustably mounted inthe said sockets and held in fixed adj usted positions by the saidclamping-screws. The sockets are circular in form, and the greaterportion of the legs is rounded; but each of the legs has a flat face 6extending full length thereof and has a scale in inches and fractions ofan inch distinctly marked thereon and readable in sequence from thelower ends of the legs uppermost. When the legs are positioned as shownby Fig. l, the faces thereof are turned inwardly, so as to be adjacentto the skirt being measured, the openings through the sockets being ofthe same contour as the cross-sectional shape of the legs to prevent thelatter from turning.

The improved device is light and can be easily lifted by any one, and inthe use of the same it is rested on a floor, table, or othersurface,with the person, either adult or child, to be measured or havingthe skirt thereon to be measured located within the central opening 2ofthe table, as shown. When the person is so disposed, the table or formcan be raised or lowered, as desired, to obtain the skirtlengthmeasurement, and by observing the scales on the several legs the exactinches or fractions thereof can be readily ascertained, The table can bemoved closely to the bottom of the garment without inconvenience lo theperson Within the same, and by this means a valuable acquisition is madeto dressmaking implements and measuring devices.

In view of the simplicity of the entire structure it can be manufacturedand sold at a minimum cost, and though the preferred form of the samehas been shown it is obvious that changes in the form, size,proportions, and minor details may be resorted to Without departing fromthe principle of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is In ameasuring device of the class set forth, the combination of a tablecomposed of two semicircular sections -each having an innersimilarly-shaped recess and hinged at diametrically opposite points andhaving a plurality of sockets projecting outwardly beyond the perimeterthereof, legs vertically adjustable in said sockets and having innerstraight faces With scale-marks thereon, the contour of the openings inthe socketsvbeing irregular and corresponding to that of thecrosssectionalvshape of the legs to prevent the latter from turning andthereby hold the legs so that the scaled faces thereof will always beinward adjacent the perimeter of the sections to ascertain the verticalheight of the latter when in use, and set-screws in said sockets to bindagainst the legs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SARAH A. CLOUD.

Witnesses:

R. E. MCNULTY,

C. M. COUNCIL.

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